UNLUCKY ITALIAN Marco Melandri says he'll take a year off MotoGP if Kawasaki pulls the plug on the premier racing series.The talented rider, who had a string of bad luck with Ducati last year, was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying:"It wouldn

KAWASAKI MotoGP new boy Marco Melandri has admitted that he almost quit last year because he was so far off the pace on the second factory Ducati.The Italian has written about his 2008 despair on his own blog, Marco33. On it, he said: "The 2008

STERILGARDA YAMAHA World Superbike 2011 team-mates Marco Melandri and Eugene Laverty have been out on track in testing at Valencia, putting both the 2010 and new 2011 racebike through their paces. The session was Melandri’s first opportunity to ride

his animosity with Marco Melandri in the Superpole scuffle. The clash between the two Italians, which can be viewed in the highlights, began when Biaggi blatantly blocked the Yamaha rider at McLeans, resulting in Melandri's exclusion from the final

GRESINI HONDA man Marco Melandri will take no further part in this weekend's MotoGP action from Assen having dislocated his shoulder in a crash during morning practice.Melandri highsided his Honda RC212V just 12 minutes into the session but walked

MOTOGP REFUGEE Marco Melandri will race in the Speedcar series for the second time this year with another outing on the four wheeler this weekend.While his MotoGP future looks increasingly iffy, the Italian will race in the fourth round

MARCO MELANDRI’S agent has confirmed that the Italian and the Ducati MotoGP team will not be working together next year.In what is the racing world’s worst secret, talks between Melandri and the Italian factory about 2009 have finally broken down.Melandri

VISORDOWN BROUGHT you news last week that Marco Melandri’s place in the Marlboro Ducati squad was under threat and that MotoGP veteran Sete Gibernau was set to replace the lacklustre Italian.The likelihood of this happening is now almost a reality

COLIN EDWARDS set the pace in qualifying, and was ready to move it still higher to be sure of repeating his first-ever pole, achieved here last year, when he was forced to slow by a cruising Marco Melandri on his last lap.“We had a minor problem

Melandri...tenth quickest in Valencia testNEW KAWASAKI MotoGP star Marco Melandri made his first official test of Kawasaki's 2009 MotoGP racer, yesterday.Melandri opted for bare carbon fibre, instead of the usual Kawasaki green livery, for his debut